Opinion

The National Association of Nigerian Students recently named the troubled Senator, Buruji Kashamu, as the ‘Golden Man of the Year’, an award that many Nigerians see as troubling given the controversial image of the Senator, nationally and internationally. Prof Sagay in your  capacity...

I do not envy President Buhari's ministers at all. I rather pity them, especially those who came on board with the same rickety mindset as we had here before May 29. I really spare a thought on those that want...

There is this wave of euphoria washing over the nation as Nigerians, true to their nature and penchant for celebrating the downfall of the once powerful, jubilate over the travails of former public officials who have been indicted for...

After reading the interview by former Transport Commissioner in Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s government, Mr Orobosa Omo-Ojo, in Daily Sun of Tuesday, September 29, 2015, at pages 26 and 30, my initial reaction was that he (Omo-Ojo) was simply bellyaching,...

Necessity, according to an English proverb, is the mother of invention. It indeed finds expression in the dictum that “when the need for something becomes essential, you are forced to find ways of getting or achieving it.” Erudite scholar,...

Since 1999, the dominant thinking in the executive branch of government in Nigeria has been one that favours the ancient aristocratic system of government in which small elite that constitutes the executive arm held sway.  This is even more evident...

One does not hold a gun carelessly. (Always be careful in handling dangerous matters.) A person’s ugliness is the god’s doing; the person’s lack of clothing is his/her own fault. At 55 years post Independence, the question remains to what extent...

When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard? Would remain not just a proverb but a rhetorical question because a generation of confused youths have allowed themselves to be mere pawns on the political chess board...

How could a real writer pretend to reply to another person’s article, but waste 1,500 words with none employed in reply to the very subject at hand? Well, Mr. Nkemjika Ibekwe, an imprecise if not totally amorphous and fluid personality...

It is said that a people gets the kind of leaders they deserve. But that is not always true. Except it is also true that some people are condemned to bad leadership no matter how inherently good they are....